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Wednesday, December 23, 1981 · Capital Centre

Bruins 7 at Capitals 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 96OVR Rick Middleton Bruins First Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG C 95OVR Barry Pederson Bruins Second Star 4A · 2 SOG RC C 98OVR Dennis Maruk Capitals Third Star 4A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:04 Peter McNab (18) PPG Rick Middleton (22), Barry Pederson (12) BOS 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 3:14 Ryan Walter (19) PPG Dennis Maruk (26), Darren Veitch (15) BOS 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 9:07 Torrie Robertson (6) PPG Dennis Maruk (27), Mike Gartner (20) BOS 1 – 2 WSH
  4. 16:50 Ryan Walter (20) PPG Chris Valentine (12), Dennis Maruk (28) BOS 1 – 3 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 5:49 Rick Middleton (21) Barry Pederson (13) BOS 2 – 3 WSH
  2. 10:21 Brad Park (4) Keith Crowder (12), Steve Kasper (8) BOS 3 – 3 WSH
  3. 12:18 Rick Middleton (22) Barry Pederson (14), Stan Jonathan (8) BOS 4 – 3 WSH
  4. 15:47 Don Marcotte (1) Steve Kasper (9), Brad Park (24) BOS 5 – 3 WSH
  5. 17:05 Rick Middleton (23) Unassisted BOS 6 – 3 WSH
  6. 19:33 Ray Bourque (6) Barry Pederson (15), Stan Jonathan (9) BOS 7 – 3 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 4:06 Mike Gartner (11) PPG Chris Valentine (13), Dennis Maruk (29) BOS 7 – 4 WSH

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rick Middleton R 3 1 4 +4 3.78
Barry Pederson C 0 4 2 +4 2.88
Brad Park D 1 1 2 +4 1.98
Stan Jonathan L 0 2 2 +3 1.85
Steve Kasper C 0 2 3 +2 1.78
Ray Bourque D 1 0 5 +1 1.28
Don Marcotte L 1 0 1 +2 1.13
Keith Crowder R 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Peter McNab C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Mike Milbury D 0 0 2 +5 0.75
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Normand Leveille L 0 0 4 0 0.15
Tom Fergus C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike O'connell D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Larry Melnyk D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Bruce Crowder R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Terry O'Reilly R 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Marco Baron W 34 30 4 .882 60:00 0.00

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dennis Maruk C 0 4 3 -1 2.58
Chris Valentine C 0 2 2 -1 1.25
Mike Gartner R 1 1 3 -3 1.15
Ryan Walter C 2 0 3 -3 1.13
Darren Veitch D 0 1 5 -1 0.70
Torrie Robertson L 1 0 2 -1 0.60
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Timo Blomqvist D 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Bobby Gould R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Gaetan Duchesne L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Wes Jarvis C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Randy Holt D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Greg Theberge D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Lou Franceschetti L 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Bobby Carpenter C 0 0 3 -2 -0.45
Terry Murray D 0 0 0 -4 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dave Parro L 34 27 7 .794 60:00 -2.55